Sally_Stitts - 12:40 am on Oct 11, 2011 (gmt 0)

I grew weary messing around with xml sitemaps.

I now just support 2 sitemaps -
One sitemap.html for my visitors, and

one sitemap.txt for Google and Bing - just a list of alphabetized URLs.
Google gobbles it up from Webmaster Tools within minutes of submission, and indexes new pages within a day or two.
On one occasion, Google gobbled it up INSTANTLY!

It takes days and days for Bing just to download the list.
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